PRO-PALESTINE protesters have lined a bridge across from the UK Parliament and displayed a banner warning MPs: “You will be on trial.”
Demonstrators dressed in red to create a “red line for Palestine” on Westminster Bridge and were visible and audible from the Commons terrace.
Activists also called for an arms embargo and for Israel to face sanctions from the UK Government.
The protest came as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn prepared to present a bill calling for an official inquiry into the UK Government’s role in facilitating the genocide in Gaza.
At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, it emerged that the Government had officially denied there was a genocide in the besieged Palestinian territory.
SNP MP Brendan O’Hara said: “The Prime Minister has repeatedly told this House that it is not for him or his government to determine what is and what is not a genocide. But that position is no longer tenable because at the High Court recently, the Prime Minister instructed his lawyers to argue that in Gaza, and I quote, ‘no genocide has occurred or is occurring’.”
He challenged the Prime Minister to have the “courage of his convictions” and repeat the claim, which Keir Starmer failed to do in his response.
